Escape from Hell

Name: Escape from Hell
Director: Kazuo Inoue
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1963-01-27
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada, Takahiro Tamura, Hiroyuki Nagato

19631h 58m★ 6.8Dir. Kazuo Inoue

Drama Crime

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a short story by Seichō Matsumoto.